World war 2 Vocab

Dictator

A ruler who has complete power over a country

Axis Powers

Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.

Allied Powers

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

D-Day

Allied troops landed at Normandy Beach in France to start freeing France from German control

Concentration Camps

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Holocaust

A plan orchestrated by Adolf Hitler to ensure German supremacy by murdering over 6 million people, many of Jewish faith.

Internment Camps

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

Manahattan Project

code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb

appeasement

Accepting demands in order to avoid confict

Nuremberg Trials

Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime